Global tobacco epidemy that existed todays reflects that there is a differencetobacco consumption pattern between low and medium and high income countries.Low and medium income countries experiencing an increase consumption oftobacco while high income countries facing the decreasing one. This will affect thedevelopment of human quallity. This research is aimed to explore relationshipbetween tobacco consumption and human development, using secondary dataobtained from UNDP, WHO and World Bank. Data analyzed by regressionanalysis. The results of this research are: there is a positive relationship betweentobacco consumption and HDI among low, medium, and high HDI countries. Bycontrary, there is a negative relationship between tobacco consumption and HDIamong very high HDI countries.Keywords: tobacco, global tobacco epidemy, human development index

Proceedings International Seminar and Call For Papers Reorienting Economics & Business in The Context of National and Global Development, 2015, ISSN: 2460-0296, Published by Faculty of Economics State University of Malang, pages: 15-22, kunjungi: http://ekp.fe.um.ac.id/?page_id=1136